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French journalist and political activist (born 1957)

Thierry Meyssan (French:[tjɛʁimɛsɑ̃]) is a French journalist, left-wing conspiracy theorist^[1][2] and political activist.

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He is the author of investigations into the extreme right-wing, particularly France's National Front militias, as well as into the Catholic church.

Meyssan's book 9/11: The Big Lie (L'Effroyable imposture) challenges the official account of events of the September 11 terrorist attacks.^[2]

Career

Meyssan is president of the Voltaire Network, which had been a respected independent think tank prior to the publication of 9/11: The Big Lie.

His reputation helped raise his conspiracy theory to prominence.^[2]

Meyssan has been noted as using cross-citations of other conspiracy theorists' works in order to lend the appearance of credibility to his ideas.

Regarding the events of 9/11, Meyssan cited Webster Tarpley; Tarpley cited Da